No that’s not my view. That you interpreted it that way is too bonkers for words. If you decide to kill Sarah, your attempt to kill Sarah following th...
I would think no. Because the intention to do X didn’t affect whether or not you tried or succeeded at doing X, physically. I would think to be morall...
Right. But these “decisions” are mental things. Are they supposed to have physical effects? Or in other words, do you think free will exists if epiphe...
I would say “there is broad agreement on the basic concept BECAUSE of disagreement reigning over what exactly it takes for our wills to answer to that...
I doubt this. I think it’s mostly because if you ask anyone on the street “do you think you have free will” they will answer in the affirmative confus...
makes sense. Weird to me that you give any and all different appearances the same weight. Is the earth round? Well to a flat earther you have the burd...
You wouldn’t get into a conversation with someone to whom something appears differently from you? You read the parenthesis right? No you do that all t...
Right now assuming you get into a conversation with someone to whom non-contradiction (or anything that seems the case to you) doesn’t appear to be th...
Fix it? No that wasn’t the proposed motivation. The motivation was: My child will likely be a positive influence, thus not having him is the riskier o...
And when things appear differently to different people? I would think if everything appeared the same way to everyone people wouldn’t even argue. This...
Nowhere there was there an actual explanation of the differences in treatment. Just restatements that there should be one. Jails? Taxes? How about the...
Depends on the situation of the people who brought me in. Restating the same thing isn’t addressing the point. I’m asking why you think that it’s fine...
I’m always skeptical about assigning moral value to how someone reacts. People can hardly choose to hate or not hate. It’s like assigning moral value ...
Sure but you haven’t explained your POV. Special pleading. Why does the harm done to someone suddenly matter way more when they don’t exist yet? Why i...
We enforce negative conditions on others all the time without their consent. Taxes, schools, etc. So your premise that it’s always wrong to do so isn’...
It is empty. "I've never seen one therefore they're not possible" doesn't follow. It could very well be that we cannot, and will never be able to, neu...
Right. And there is a neural difference between when something makes sense and when it doesn’t. That’s your logical entailment explained in physical t...
Sounds like as good a starting point as any. I used to operate by the opposite principle. “If you don’t want to believe it it is probably true so migh...
Can’t think on an empty stomach! Sure but But I don’t see how this follows. What is the problem with equivocating brain states with mental states? I’m...
You have this idea where logical entailment is a “thing out there”. Some law inherent in the universe or something. Whereas I think logical entailment...
The hypothesis is that conceptual thought is a physical process. So I don’t see the difference. That you’ve never seen one means it’s fundamentally im...
You first off have to assume that this is possible. Which is already dualistic (splitting minds and bodies as different types of things). No it doesn’...
Ok... What is the "conceptual element lacking in digestion". I still don't understand what the sentence means at all. Well you didn't even say that. A...
There is no shortage of studies of self in neurology. Here is one: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292534980_The_Lost_Self_Pathologies_of_the...
Sure but I don’t see how that makes mental states more than body states. Doesn’t seem too challenging to someone who knows their neurology. Assuming t...
Idk why you'd pick "Downtrodden" out of everything. Do you mean it as an emotion or a financial state? If it is the former then, yes, according to ide...
Nope, certain mental states ARE neuronal states. It’s not that there exists “mental states” as separate from neuronal states, and the formal is caused...
Then what’s the difference between identity theory and reductionism? I don’t see a difference. Maybe there isn’t and I’m just getting hung up on words...
I'm assuming you mean "of brain". And who said that it has to be one to one? The claim is that certain states of mind ARE certain states of brain. Ang...
Most renditions of "mind" has it doing something though. And by these uses "mind" is not a thing doing something but just a side effect of brains. Dig...
I doubt babies have an “initial character”. You develop a personality/character as you grow up. Would be the premise to attack really yes. What exactl...
Non sequitor. Just because I don’t believe in any of them doesn’t mean I need to have the same attitude towards their existence. I can not believe in ...
Ah well you see, stepping on a mine is only correlated to blowing up to bits, but doesn’t necessarily cause it. There is always a chance the mine rand...
I’ll take that. And this is wrong correct? Yet having children is an example of presently increasing the probability conditions of a harmful occurrenc...
Right, so to keep your hypothesis intact you will make it so that "sensible" is different from physical/material. So electrons are no longer sensible,...
But in this case you know no one will step on it. No one that exists right now anyways. And that's all that matters right? And parents saving money fo...
But this is not an issue for anyone. You know this. No one will be harmed by the mine (since Jeff is a fiction). So what's the problem in that case? W...
So do you only care about intent? And not about consequences? What if I placed the mine there as decoration with no intent to kill anybody? And beside...
Not really. https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/02/07/what-is-the-shape-of-an-electron/ This: Quantum wave functions, electrons, and many other things i...
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